Thomas Kohut is a historian specializing in German history and culture. He contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard between 2012 and 2015, exploring topics related to German politics, power, and national identity. He is a professor of history at Williams College, known for his work on German psychological history.
The Third Reich has surely been the subject of more books and articles than any other topic in European history. Although it is certainly possible to imagine new discoveries of relatively minor features of Nazism or of the Nazi period, it is difficult to imagine someone uncovering facts about…
In his foreword, this book’s excellent translator, Robert E. Goodwin, describes the author, Rüdiger Safranski, as a “raconteur.” This is an apt characterization: Highly intelligent and extraordinarily well-read, Safranski brims with intellectual self-confidence. He is firm in his convictions and in…
The Third Reich hovers over German history.